1:00 a.m., the sun shines brightly

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Studying docile seals, if humans find that they can benefit humans, why not kill them.

It turns out that the compass only points to heaven and earth in the South Pole.

Terrifying underwater creatures, human escape?

The abusive words used to describe invasive creatures in doomsday movies that biologist divers watch are actually not human.

At 1 am, the sun shines brightly. Language extinction, like a species, is rarely cherished.

Neutrinos, ghosts. Think of college physics: Einstein's theory of relativity + speed of light = time travel.

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Encounters at the End of the World quotes

  • Werner Herzog: It occurred to me that in the time that we spent with him in the greenhouse possibly three or four languages have died. In our efforts to preserve endangered species we seem to overlook something equally important. To me, it's a sign of a deeply disturbed civilization, where tree-huggers and whale-huggers in their weirdness are acceptable, while no one embraces the last speakers of a language.

  • Werner Herzog: For me, the best description of hunger is the description of bread. A poet said that once I think. For me, the best description of freedom is what you have in front of you. You're travelling a lot.